sanctimoniousness

Example Sentences

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B his heated response comes across with more than a whiff of sanctimoniousness, as if enjoying “that area” is simply beyond his comprehension.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2016

The notes, he wrote, quoting from them, make it clear that Lead Belly “ ‘early decided that he preferred frankness, flesh and the devil to sanctimoniousness without a guitar.’ ”

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2015

By 1924, Virginia Woolf was complaining about the stuffy, intellectualized sanctimoniousness of those books.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2014

She seems restricted by the sanctimoniousness of the role.

From Time • Nov. 29, 2

Reaching the suburbs of Khoi, I am initiated into a new departure - new to myself at this time - of Persian sanctimoniousness.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas